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  • FHA PowerSaver Loans – a PACE Replacement?

    Late last year, the Federal Housing Administration announced a new PowerSaver loan program to provide financing for home energy efficiency improvements.  The program comes on the heels of the downfall of residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, which allowed homeowners to pay back energy efficiency improvements via long-term property tax payments, as well as […]

  • Coal is China's Largest industrial water consumer

    China’s coal mining, processing, and electrical generating industries consumed over 112 billion cubic meters (30 trillion gallons) of water annually, which is nearly 20 percent of all national water consumption, according to the China Ministry of Water Resources.

  • Coal is China’s Largest industrial water consumer

    China’s coal mining, processing, and electrical generating industries consumed over 112 billion cubic meters (30 trillion gallons) of water annually, which is nearly 20 percent of all national water consumption, according to the China Ministry of Water Resources.

  • Key Members of Congress Ring Alarm Bells

    In the midst of the House of Representatives efforts to completely gut US international investments in addressing carbon pollution, two leading Members of Congress highlighted how the US would lose out from these draconian cuts.  US Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) both raised the alarm bells – and they are ringing […]

  • Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years

    (TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]

  • Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years

    (TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]

  • NY Times on “The dirty energy party”

    The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP.   It only makes one historical error:   President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]

  • NY Times on “The dirty energy party”

    The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP.   It only makes one historical error:   President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]

  • House Republicans Pretend Global Warming Doesn't Exist

    Today the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on an amendment which would deny any US funding to international efforts to determine whether global warming is happening and how much damage it will have on humanity.  The amendment from Rep. Luetkemeyer (R-MO) would block funds to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

  • House Republicans Pretend Global Warming Doesn’t Exist

    Today the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on an amendment which would deny any US funding to international efforts to determine whether global warming is happening and how much damage it will have on humanity.  The amendment from Rep. Luetkemeyer (R-MO) would block funds to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]